2.2. How?

Put the RAID Card into the computer, but leave the hard drive(s) on the motherboard. Boot up into Linux. Login as root.
You should have the tar file from the Promise site, if not, see "What?" section above.

2.2.1. Extracting the module

Put the tar file into /tmp.

Issue this command:
tar vxf ftrhup_120b9.tar

Now we have access to the modules.cgz
file. Issue the following:

# gzip -dc modules.cgz > modules.cpio
# cpio -idumv < modules.cpio

A few directories will be created, so move to the correct
directory, depending on your kernel version. You can get your
kernel version, by issuing: uname -r

You will see the ft.o file. Copy this file to the
/lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/scsi
directory.

2.2.2. Creating the Initial RAM Disk

The Fasttrak module, ft, needs scsi_mod. To use the card as a RAID
Card, you will also need sd_mod.

To boot off the card, we will need to create a ramdisk, with the
required modules, so that linux can see the hard drive(s).